KORIN
••• All knives are 15% off through December (the code for online is HKS2017); below, the Togiharu Damascus knife ($150), which staff recommended. A knife is especially appropriate for anyone with a second house, because people never seem to stock their second houses with good knives.
••• Set of four dishes ($25).

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MYSTERIOUS BOOKSHOP
••• The manager suggested Friends and Traitors by John Lawton ($26) and Winter Warning by Jerome Charyn ($26).
••• The store also has a line of “Bibliomysteries”—short book-themed stories published individually (and never before)—by the likes of Ian Rankin, Jeffrey Deaver, John Connolly, and Nelson DeMille (from $5). Excellent stocking stuffers.

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GOLDISH
••• This dazzling Opalite pendant wants to be touched ($400).
••• The 14-karat-gold “Ladder to Bliss” can be worn on the neck, hand, or foot ($175).
••• A delicate hand chain ($240).

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PHILIP WILLIAMS POSTERS
••• Philip Williams has posters on just about every subject, so find something relevant to the recipient: someone she admires (Che Guevara, $400), perhaps, or somewhere he vacationed (Rimini, $250); a style she’s fond of (I love this Wiener Werkstätte–ish one, $950), or his spirit animal ($400).

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KINGS PHARMACY
••• Kind of a freaky sleep mask ($5).
••• Be very careful to whom you give a pig-shaped shower cap ($6).
••• I don’t know how much the “From the Dirty Mind of” notepad and “My Bed Guestbook” are because there weren’t sales tags, and when I asked the cashier, she told me to go find a manager, but my curiosity ran out.